Poing:
Today’s freeware game can be downloaded from Firestone, the developers site by following the link below:
http://www.firestormproductions.co.uk/poing/
You will find several screenshots on the home page.
Features
• 80 colorful levels split across 10 level sets
• 16 different brick types to hinder your progress
• 20 weird and wonderful power-ups, good and bad
• Detailed lifetime stats to track your achievements
• High scores for each level set and an overall hall of fame
• Integrated level editor to create your own levels with
• Crisp 800 x 600 graphics with scalable detail
• Funky chip-style music from Alexander “zalza” Bulér
Poing! PC is the award-winning freeware game that puts an innovative twist on the tried and tested style of Breakout. Destroying bricks will not necessarily help since they will keep coming back… instead, the aim is to break a path to the back wall of each level and smash the wall until it fades away, allowing you to progress through to the next level.
As an added twist, if you lose the ball after progressing through several levels, you won’t lose a life immediately. The ball will plummet back through the levels you’ve beaten until you either catch it or it goes past the first level of the set.
Fortunately there’s a wide variety of power-ups to help you along the way, including the Bat Autopilot, Force field and Promote. Poing! PC also keeps track of your games and compiles a whole list of lifetime statistics along with the per-level set and all-time hi-score tables - and if you get tired of the included levels, you can make your own with the included level editor!
This is one of my favorite freeware arkanoid’s and probably one of my favorite freeware games full stop. The game play is actually better than a lot of arkanoid’s I’ve bought. I love the ball physics and the slightly different take on the breakout style of game, which is mentioned above, where the bricks keep coming back. The replay value is good and the 80 levels you get are plenty especially as each level is quite long.
Give the game a trial for a few levels to get used to it.
Tip:
Try spinning the ball by slicing the bat and watch the excellent ball physics in action.
